Andrew Erueti

Associate Professor Andrew Erueti (Ngā Ruahinerangi, Ngāti Ruanui, Te Atihaunui a Pāpārangi) has been awarded a Mana Tūānuku Research Leader Fellowship to enable Māori to address persistent inequities in health and child welfare in ways that are grounded in tikanga Māori and responsive to people’s local and lived realities. The focus will be on health and child welfare, but this framework is intended to have broader relevance to environmental governance and to criminal and social justice. This research is designed to enhance tino rangatiratanga (self-determination) for whānau Māori, and in the long term, to contribute to social cohesion, equity, and economic wellbeing for all New Zealanders.

Associate Professor Andrew Erueti is the Associate Dean Māori at Waipapa Taumata Rau – the University of Auckland, based in the Faculty of Law. Andrew was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State Care and a global Indigenous Rights Advisor for Amnesty International. After a PhD at the University of Toronto in Canada, Andrew completed a Fulbright Scholarship at Boulder Law School in the United States of America.

Dr Andrew Erueti (photo supplied)